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Taoxichuan Online Master Lecture
Nicolas Touron: Moving toward 3D clay printing
Lecture date
20:00 Wed, 20:00 (BST), Jan 27, 2021
Language
English, Chinese (Consecutive Interpretation)
Participation
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Taoxichuan·Jingdezhen International Studio relaunch the artist lecture series with online platform at 2021. The studio is very pleased to invite the Art Director at Sculpture Space NYC (Ceramic facility and residency), French Americans artist, Nicolas Touron, the titled of this week's lecture is "Moving toward 3D clay printing". The lecture will be held on Wednesday, January 27, at Taoxichuan International Education Program -- Master Online Lecture. During this lecture we will look at recent sculpture created by Nicolas Touron and oversee the evolution of his work towards 3D clay printing and the technical possibility offer by this technique of production.
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Nicolas Touron
Born in France Nicolas Touron is a New York City based artist He received his MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York and was a 2001 recipient of a Fullbright Scholarship. He studied Sculpture, ceramic and audio visual at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam during is BFA.
Nicolas Touron is a storyteller, and like a gifted one of the oral tradition, he enhances and embellishes his tales each time they’re told. As an artist he creates engaging and complex work in both painting and sculpture that, through concepts of movement, evolution, characters, and motifs, suggest larger narratives.
Departing from traditional approaches, Touron’s stories never have specific beginnings or ending, and in this way become visual embodiments of the living process of storytelling. Nicolas Touron work has been featured prominently in the USA as well as internationally in art gallery, museums and public spaces. His work is in numerous private collections around the world.
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Long before their capitalization by Disney and on-screen animators, tales were told to children for a much more serious purpose. This narrative form, best exemplified in stories like “Hansel and Gretel,” served to prepare the young for a life of malnutrition, disease, poverty and exploitation at the hands of feudal lords.
Nicolas works are visual fables, but contrary to the classic fables, his pass no blame, contain no call to action, and offer no solutions. They simply exist on landscapes of absurdity, collapsing and deforming due to a lack of objectives and destinations.
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The 3D printed sculpture are an extension of a vernacular body of work I have been developing over many years. Delving into the juxtapositions between art form considered naive and a computerized form of creation perceived as a more concept driven process. I created these “contraptions” in the spirit of Ferdinand Cheval’s Palais Idéal.Assembling shapes and forms pulled out of the menagerie of personages from paintings and drawings I have been creating over the years.
The 3D printed objects, which also recall reliquaries observed in the south of France and Italy are monument to the ideas of personage already used. The shapes created in the virtual world are designed as modules/personages which can be re-used and re-assemble to create new sculpture like element of receipt, left over of process of a previous career as a chef in France.
Touron’s quixotic narratives, are situated in abstracted microcosms and laced with colorful confections and bubble-gum landscapes, not surprising choices considering his past as a professional chef in Paris and Amsterdam.